APDU Bi-Weekly – September 14, 2023

September 14, 2023

FEATURE

2023 APDU Does Data Storytelling

Amid a modern-day data deluge, the ability to distill information into insight and tell a compelling, cohesive, and accurate story has rapidly become an essential skill for researchers and other data professionals. Data storytelling is in demand and APDU has you covered with upcoming webinars and workshops.

Before our data storytelling workshop in November, gather some inspiration from APDU’s 2023 Data Storytelling Award Winner: Professors Sara Queen and Tania Allen from NC State University will share their presentation, Challenging Neutrality: A Closer Look at Confederate Memorialization in the U.S., a powerful data-based, visual demonstration of how the construction of confederate memorials coincided with Jim Crow segregation and reactionary protests to the Civil Rights Movement.

The webinar will be on September 26^th at 3pm. Click below to register.

Interested in learning how to be a more effective data storyteller? Check out our upcoming 1.5 day workshop with Jeff Allen, an urban data scientist and Data Visualization Lead at the University of Toronto School of Cities. The workshop will cover the building blocks of good data storytelling across a variety of mediums (charts, maps, interactives, animations, text, etc.) and will provide opportunities for group discussion, hands-on tutorials, and more.

The workshop will be held November 13^th – 14^th at CREC’s offices in Arlington, VA. Click below for more information and to register.

NEWS

Atlanta, New Orleans, San Francisco Areas Gain People After Correction of Errors

CDC’s New Chief Plans to Rebuild Trust in the Agency

Employers Added 187,000 Jobs in August, Showing Resilience but Slower Growth

New Business Openings on the Rise Nationwide

Report: Preschool Enrollment Rates Fell During Pandemic in Most Mountain West States

Statement by Acting Secretary of Labor Su on August Jobs Report

The Fed Cares a Lot About Jobs Data — But It May Be Getting Mixed Signals

Tribal Nations Face Less Accurate, More Limited 2020 Census Data Because of Privacy Methods

US Labor Department Sees Much Slower Job Growth Through 2032

What to Expect: The 2022 Census Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Reports

COVID-19 NEWS

CDC Recommends New COVID Booster for All Americans Over 6 Months Amid Rising Cases, Hospitalizations

CDC Director Mandy Cohen’s Advice on Coping With Ongoing COVID-19 Wave

FDA Signs off on Updated COVID-19 Vaccines That Target Circulating Variants

States on Track to See the Biggest COVID Surges by October

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

2022-23 Common Core of Data (CCD) Preliminary Directory Data Release

Education Across America—At a Glance

New NCSES Data Tools Feature: Save and Load Custom Tables

New York Fed Staff Nowcast

DATA VISUALIZATION

Most Popular U.S. Undergraduate Degrees (2011–2021)

APDU WEBINARS

APDU

Data Storytelling Award Winner: A Closer Look at Confederate Memorialization in the US

September 26, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

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UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau

Explore Foreign-Born and Ancestry Population Data

September 21, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Census Bureau 

Finding 2020 Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A Data on data.census.gov

September 25, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

National Center for Health Statistics

Population-Based Survey Experience in Multimode Health and Nutrition Data Collection

October 4, 2023

1:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Beyond ’23: KYSTATS Data Summit

City Summit

September 28, 2023

Louisville, KY

Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology

Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference

October 24 – 26, 2023

Hyattsville, MD

American Statistical Association

2023 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference

October 25 – 27, 2023

Bellevue, WA

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Association of Public Data Users

Data Storytelling Workshop

November 13 – 14, 2023

Arlington, VA

National League of Cities

City Summit

November 16 – 18, 2023

Atlanta, GA

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Benchmark Updates of GDP and More Starting Sept. 28

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• A Look at Publishing Data for National Read a Book Day
• A Review of Recent Improvements to the CPI’s Housing Age-Bias Adjustment
• BLS Now Publishing Monthly and Quarterly Labor Force Data for Detailed Asian Groups
• Consumer Unit Expenditures in 2022 Are $72,967; A 9.0% Increase From 2021
• County Employment and Wages (QCEW) Database Now Fully Updated Through 1st Quarter 2023
• Employment Ebbed in the Lower Mississippi Delta From 2002 to 2022
• Employment up at Least 5.0 Percent in Three Metro Areas From July 2022 to July 2023
• Labor Force and Macroeconomic Projections Overview and Highlights, 2022–32
• Labor Force Participation Increased by Education Level for Baby Boomers Born From 1957 to 1964
• Learning About Employment and Wages of Elementary and Secondary School Employees
• Looking at the Growing Productivity of American Workers for Labor Day
• New Monthly and Quarterly Labor Force Data for Detailed Asian Groups
• Recognizing Hotel Employees on National Hotel Employee Day
• The NAICS 2022 Update and Its Effect on BLS Employment Estimates in the Retail Trade Sector
• Total Employment Is Projected to Increase Almost 4.7 Million From 2022 to 2032
• Total Factor Productivity for Detailed Industries – 2021

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• August 2023 U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment (4.9%) Rises Above the August 2022 Level (4.6%) And the Pre-Pandemic August 2019 Level (4.8%)
• U.S. Airlines’ July 2023 Fuel Cost per Gallon Up 2.3% from June 2023; Aviation Fuel Consumption Up 0.1% from Pre-Pandemic July 2019
• U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Added 2,058 Jobs in July 2023; Employment Remains 8.2% Above Pre-Pandemic July 2019

Census Bureau

• 2014-2018 Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation: Technical Documentation
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Expands Scope
• Census Bureau Announces New 2022 Annual Integrated Economic Survey
• Census Bureau to Hold Webinar on Release of 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A
• Center for Economic Studies Research Report: 2022
• Demographic and Housing Characteristics Data Available for 118th Congress
• Exploring the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Various Age Groups
• How Inflation Affects the Census Bureau’s Income and Earnings Estimates
• Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2022
• More Unmarried Women Than Unmarried Men in the U.S.
• Significant Declines in Preschool Enrollment During COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Three Results From Recent Research on Advanced Technology Use and Automation
• Transforming the Census Bureau’s Annual Surveys of Businesses
• Using Administrative Data to Evaluate Nonresponse Bias in the 2023 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement
• What’s the Difference Between the Supplemental and Official Poverty Measures?
• Work and Lifestyle of Young Adults Changed During the Pandemic

Economic Research Service

• Area and Road Ruggedness Scales
• International Food Security Assessment, 2023–2033

Energy Information Administration

• Electric Vehicles and Hybrids Make Up 16% Of U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Sales
• Heating U.S. Commercial Buildings Is Most Energy Intensive in Cold Climates
• In 2023, U.S. Renewable Diesel Production Capacity Surpassed Biodiesel Production Capacity
• Record U.S. Small-Scale Solar Capacity Was Added in 2022
• The United States Exported More LNG Than Any Other Country in the First Half of 2023
• Three More Countries Began Importing Liquefied Natural Gas This Year, and More Will Follow
• U.S. Gasoline Prices Are on the Rise Heading Into Labor Day

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 

• Many Major District Metro Areas Have Yet to Recover to Their Prepandemic Employment Levels

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Early Benchmarked Employment Data

National Center for Education Statistics

• 2019 Homeschooling and Full-Time Virtual Education Rates
• Condition of Education
• Forum Guide to Discipline Data

National Center for Health Statistics

• Infant Mortality in the United States, 2021: Data From the Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File
• National Center for Health Statistics’ 2019 Research and Development Survey, RANDS 3
• New Provisional Mortality Data Now Available Weekly in CDC Wonder
• QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Rates of Death Involving Exposure to Excessive Heat Among States with the Highest Numbers of Deaths — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2021
• QuickStats: Number of Deaths Resulting from Being Bitten or Struck by a Dog, by Sex — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2011–2021

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Federally Funded R&D Centers Spent $26.5 Billion on R&D in FY 2022
• FFRDC Research and Development Survey
• The National Secure Data Service Demonstration Project

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• What to Watch for in Next Week’s Census Data on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2022

Pew Research Center

• Black Workers’ Views and Experiences in the U.S. Labor Force Stand Out in Key Ways
• Who is Hispanic?

FEDERAL RULEMAKING AND CALLS FOR COMMENT

APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. 

Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Direct Investment Surveys: BE-15, Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (October 10, 2023)
• Services Surveys: BE-140, Benchmark Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance Companies With Foreign Persons (September 18, 2023)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey (September 25, 2023)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• SafeMTS—Near-Miss Reporting and Analysis Program for the Maritime Transportation System (October 10, 2023)

Census Bureau

• High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Pulse Survey (October 16, 2023)
• Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey (September 18, 2023)
• Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions (October 2, 2023)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Agricultural Surveys Program (November 13, 2023)
• Fast Track Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Programs (November 7, 2023)
• Fruits, Nuts, and Specialty Crops Surveys (November 7, 2023)
• Honey and Honey Bee Surveys (October 2, 2023)

National Center for Education Statistics

• 2020/25 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS:20/25) Field Test (November 6, 2023)
• High School and Beyond 2022 (HS&B:22) First Follow-up Field Test Data Collection (September 22, 2023)
• School Pulse Panel 2023–24 Second Quarter Revision (October 10, 2023)

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB

• Statistical Policy Directive No. 3: Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators-Proposal To Change Timing of Public Comments by Employees of the Executive Branch (October 24, 2023)